👓 2018 Finalists | Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
📺 Georgia vs. South Carolina – September 8, 2018 | CBS
No. 3 Georgia turns road test into rout of No. 24 Gamecocks
Skimmed through the last quarter after the result seemed obvious.
📖 Read pages 116-129 of The Celtic Myths by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
📖 Read pages 116-129 of The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Thames & Hudson, , ISBN: 978-0500252093)
📺 “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Starship Mine
Directed by Cliff Bole. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. When the Enterprise puts in to space dock for an energy sweep of the ship which is lethal to humans, Picard gets trapped on board with technicians who are not what they appear to be.
The plot of this episode has an incredibly uncanny resemblance to the plot of the movie Die Hard.
📺 An intensifying battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh | Washington Week
Controversy rises over sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Panelists discuss what to expect from a potential hearing later next week, and what’s at stake for both parties as they approach the November midterm elections. Plus, a new twist in the president’s attacks on the Department of Justice.
👓 Cornell researcher who studied what we eat and why will step down after six studies are retracted | Los Angeles Times
Cornell University says Brian Wansink will step down at the end of the academic year after a review of his work turned up many problems.
👓 Bob Greenblatt stepping down as NBC Entertainment chairman | Los Angeles Times
Bob Greenblatt has spent nearly eight years running NBC Entertainment, a period that saw the peacock network return to prosperity.
📺 "Kids Baking Championship" Selfieclairs | Food Network
With Duff Goldman, Valerie Bertinelli, Saylor Herrin, Matthew Azuma. A new group of kid bakers introduce themselves via delicious "selfieclairs"; using a selfie as a inspiration, the bakers create eclairs in assigned flavors and then decorate them to serve as a pate a choux pastry introduction.
👓 Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition | Nature
Exclusive: Document shows that the astronomer toned down the claims that triggered science history’s most infamous battle — then lied about his edits.
👓 News re proofs of the ABC conjecture & Riemann Hypothesis | John D. Cook
There have been a couple news stories regarding proofs of major theorems. First, an update on Shinichi Mochizuki’s proof of the abc conjecture, then an announcement that Sir Michael Atiyah claims to have proven the Riemann hypothesis.
👓 Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis | New Scientist
Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers